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The Result of a Hypothesis Is Described in Terms of the Probability

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The result of a hypothesis is described in terms of the probability of obtaining a particular sample. Use the given contextto formulate the null and alternative hypotheses. Discuss whether the sample provides evidence for rejecting the nullhypothesis.
-The mayor of a city claims that racial profiling is not a problem in his city. A civil rights group disagrees. The proportion of Caucasians who have been stopped while driving, without good reason, at least once in the past year is 0.19(19%)0.19 ( 19 \% ) . In a random sample of 340 African Americans, the proportion who have been stopped is 0.37(37%)0.37 ( 37 \% ) . Assuming that the proportion of all African Americans in the city that have been stopped is 0.190.19 , the probability of selecting a sample in which the proportion who have been stopped is 0.370.37 or more is less than 0.0010.001 .

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